This shit again? Really? And from a fellow Canadian too! For shame
(Love ya Chance!)
I have always said that Sonya is top 5 since release and said she's #3 for a number of months now. The problem isn't Sonya players "downplaying" her, it's the opinion of the the rest of the community (and a large number of Sonya players as well) with the opinion that Since Sonya has an
armored kombo starter and d4 MS shenaningans that she's broken. So when we try to teach people how to beat Sonya with their respective characters, we're told to STFU and
Kartwheel. Even with the MS shenanigans, you don't see many Sonyas using anything other than F1 and throw. MS B4 is the sickest sweep I think I've ever seen in any fighting game. MS 4 is a good counter-poke/jump stuff if Sonya has them trained to try to stop MS shenaningans that way. MS 3 is a fast mid. Yet none of these are seen as "viable" by the majority of the Sonya community.
I mean, evidently I'm the only on that's pissed right off that the biggest news in the Sonya forums is whether or not Curbo is going to go back to Sonya. That is just fucking sad. Riu48 and Morty post awesome guides (thanks a ton guys! I'm in the process of memorizing every word!) and Curbo's thread blows up?
Sonya's catchphrase should be "You will learn respect" since as long as people keep calling her broken, they will accuse us of downplaying every time we post anything even remotely resembling actual tech.
/rant off
My vote for biggest downplayers is the Jade community